Family Medicine Residency - Obstetrics
Residents receive instruction from our family practice program directors, our OB/GYN consultants. and private family practice staff from the community. Antepartum care, labor management, and postpartum care are all covered between a longitudinal exposure in an outpatient setting as well as on our Mother-Baby floor in the hospital. Resident responsibilities include evaluation of patients, presenting to the obstetrics unit for triage, and eventual admission or discharge. Residents receive broad training in caring for both low-risk and high-risk pregnancies with supervision from Board-certified family physicians and obstetricians. Our residents actively participate in the management of laboring patients in the hospital and have the opportunity to be present at every delivery. They are also able to serve as first assistants on C-Sections. On average our unit delivers 150 babies per month.
Procedural skills learned include the following:
- Vaginal delivery
- Vacuum‐assisted vaginal delivery
- Laceration repairs (1st and 2nd degree are required, 3rd and 4th degree are optional)
- First assist with cesarean section
- Bedside ultrasound evaluation
- Artificial rupture of membranes
- Nitrazine, wet mount, and ferning evaluation
- Intrauterine Pressure Catheter placement
- Cervical Ripening Device placement
- Fetal Scalp Electrode placement